Born of grief and shadow: Splendidula's Absentia channels "this is our pain" through six devastating tracks of black metal and doom, shaped by the loss of loved ones with guest voices from Aaron Stainthorpe (My Dying Bride) and Tim Yatras (Austere) — hear the title track on the standalone single. Oskoreien's Hollow Fangs delivers visceral atmospheric black metal born of near-death, love, and family shattered by tragedy, while Funeral Winds' Screaming for Resurrection exhumes cold, venomous 1993–1994 recordings — "hateful, raw, and eternally Satanic." Rancorous' In Extremis rounds things out with zero-compromise death thrash from the true underground.

Black Metal releases

Etudes et essais autour de la pathostase (2013-2018) by Stase:orgone cover art

“There is no other way out than lies or subversion, chaos or arbitrariness, and in the end, we emerge from this mass of sound alienated by ourselves, Stase:Orgone opening a path here that carries ev...”